Krystian Woznicki on Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:54:02 +0100 (CET) |
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[rohrpost] Fwd: Bojana Pejic-Vortrag, 14.2., BLN |
Postkoloniale Kritik Vortragsreihe an der Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin in Cooperation mit dem NGBK Moderation : Hito Steyerl VORTRAG VON BOJANA PEJIC Am Donnerstag 14.2.02 um 18.30h . Raum 110 UdK . Hardenbergstrasse 33 "Mothers of the Nations, Daughters of the Revolutions Politics of representation in Public Space" In my lecture, I intend to discuss the public project by the Croatian woman artist, Sanja Ivekovic, Lady Rosa of Luxembourg. Sanja Ivekovic (born in Zagreb 1949), who produced feminist works already in the early 1970s, is an artist who throughout her entire carrier has questioned the "image" of femininity and the status of women in a given socius, be it Socialism or post-Socialism. The artist dedicated her rearticulation of a war memorial in Luxemburg to Rosa Luxemburg. This feminist intervention triggered a great political scandal in the Luxemburg community and triggered violent, even hysterical, reactions taking place in the public sphere. The female allegories of the nations, are usually taken to be a topic of the nineteenth century and it is commonly presumed that they lost their relevance in the twentieth century. However, they resurfaced all around Europe after the Second World War in public statuary now shaped after modernist (abstract) visual regimes. Furthermore, such allegorical femininity has been actualized after 1989 when after the fall of the Communist rules so many new nation states have been founded; almost without difference each of the post-Communist states reintroduced the female national allegory standing for the Mother of the Nation. I will situate Ivekovics temporary monument in this historical and contemporary context and talk about female allegories in public space. Bojana Pejic ist Kunsthistorikerin und Kuratorin. Unter anderem kuratierte sie die Ausstellung "After the Wall" , die letztes Jahr auch in Berlin zu sehen war. Die Vortragssprache ist englisch. ----- ------------------------------------------------------- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste fuer Medien- und Netzkultur Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost Info: http://www.mikro.org/rohrpost Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de